Improvement in combined seeder and hay-rake



iltiid l gaining Letters Patent N 93,838, dated August 17, 1869.

y IMPROVEMENT 1N commen scenes 'AND vHAY-RARE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

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To all whom it may concern:

,Be it 'known that I, A. l). ROUT'I, of Liberty Mills, in the county of Orange, and State of Virginia, have invented a newand improved Combined Hay-Rake and Seeder; and I do hereby declare the following to -be a full, clear, and exact qescription of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, in Which- Figure 1 is a ylongitudinal vertical section, and

Figure 2, a top view of same.

This invention consists in an improved mode of fastening the teeth of a rake, that maybe used for raking hay or for scratching in seed falling from a seed-box placed in front of the rake.

Also, in an apparatus for rendering the seeder inoperative, when the machine is to be used solely as a rake.A i

In the. drawings- A represents the rake-head, the saine consisting of two strips, c a', the one placed edgewise upon the other, and the two rmly bolted together.

t The 4rake-teeth b passbetweem the two strips, in holes made inthe upper one for vtheir reception, and

are bent down over the front side of the lower strip,

occupying grooves cut in'said strip to receive them, and outside of the teeth a metallicband, h, is nailed or otherwise secured to the lower strip a. The teeth,

by these. devices, are most firmly fastened in the rakehead.

In front of the head A, and to the under side of the thills, is secured a Iseeder, B, consisting of the usual boX,Wit11l a' l'ow of holes in the bottom, and a slideworking in connection with the holes.`

I design that my rake-teeth shall serve, uponoccasion, to scratch in the seed.`

The slide is operated by a corrugated rim, c, placed on, the inside of the wheel, which communicates a reciprocating motion to the bar o, having on one end a friction-roller, c2, following the elevations and depres sions ot' the rim c. and connected at the other end to the slide in the box. y

The friction-roller is kept in contact with the corrugations by means of a spring, 1l, pressing against the Inside of the bar \Vhen I wish to render the seeder inoperative, I

withdraw the bar from the corrugated rim, by means of a lever, c, connected, by a rod, e' with thebar ci, and fasten the lever behind a catch, e". y Having' thus described my invention, What 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

'A combined seeding-machine and horse hay-rake, substantially as described, that is to say, a machine having rake-teeth b b, attached by means of the strips a a and the metallic band h, a seeder, B, and the distributing-apparatus, consisting of the corrugated rim c, spring d,rllerc2, rod el, lever c, andcatchc", when said parts are so constructed and arranged that the teeth b b may be used to scratch in the grain sown by the seeder, or may be used independently of thl seederapp'aratus, for the purpose of raking hay.

Witnesses:

JAMES RoAcH, L. L. HIGGINS. 

